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| URI: | http://purl.tuc.gr/dl/dias/5FDC16B7-A3E7-4571-B3C5-CB5A3D5AF4A4 | ||
| Year | 2020 | ||
| Type of Item | Diploma Work | ||
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| Bibliographic Citation | Pavlos-Paris Giakoumakis, "Study and modeling of pedestrian walk with regard to the improvement of stability and comfort on walkways", Diploma Work, School of Electrical & Computer Engineering, Technical University of Crete, Chania, Greece, 2020 https://doi.org/10.26233/heallink.tuc.88051 | ||
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The static stability of footbridges or pedestrian walkways can be effectively assessed through several approaches developed in the fields of mechanical and civil engineering. On the other hand, the dynamic stability of pedestrian walkways represents an underexplored field and only in the last 2 years, the comfort of such structures has been investigated. A walkway under the tendency to oscillate, provokes panic and insecurity of the users and needs to be appropriately addressed in order to guarantee the safety of pedestrians.In this thesis, we introduce an innovative algorithm for modeling and simulation of human walk using Gaussian Mixture Models. Our model satisfies the requirements of simplicity, ease of use by engineers and is suitable to accurately assess the dynamic stability of walkways. Furthermore, we implement a simulator that can be used to provide reliable prediction and assessment of floor vibrations under human actions. Evaluation results are promising, showing that our simulator is capable of supplementing the experimental procedure in future research.
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